At his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was counted among the
greatest poets in nineteenth-century America. This variorum edition
of all the poems Emerson chose for publication during his lifetime
offers readers the opportunity to situate Emerson s poetic
achievement alongside his celebrated essays and to consider their
interrelationship.
Decades before Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson took their
places in the firmament of American poets, Emerson was securely
enthroned. Though his reputation as essayist now eclipses his
reputation as poet, Emerson self-identified as a writer of verse
and worked out his transcendental philosophy in this genre,
establishing his belief in the authority of individual experience
and in the essential metaphoric nature of language. Albert J. von
Frank s historical introduction traces the development of Emerson
the poet, considering how life events, as well as his reading of
German philosophy and Sufi poetry, influenced his thought and
expression. Alongside accounts of the critical reception of his
poems are public and private writings that reveal Emerson s own
estimation of his poetic project and achievement.
The textual introduction and apparatus make transparent the
theoretical and practical concerns that inform these critical
texts. Also included are a chronological lists of variants and
texts constituting the historical collation, notes clarifying
obscure allusions, and headnotes identifying sources and
context.
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